DUNEDIN, Fla. — The Phillies have 11 days to wake their bats, tighten the defensive screws and find their pitches.

Eleven days to travel to Texas and open the season to iron out the issues. At the moment, they still appear like a rumpled, uninspired mess.

Their Grapefruit League turn remained lousy Wednesday in an 11-6 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. A week-long scrutiny of shortstop Jimmy Rollins lingered thanks to an ESPN report that “sources” indicated there is sentiment within the organization that the team would benefit from dealing Rollins and allowing Freddy Galvis to take over at shortstop.

Rollins, who went 1-for-4 to push his limp spring average up to .115, didn’t want to discuss the matter after leaving the game in the seventh inning. In a brief conversation with MLB.com in the morning, Rollins reiterated something he has been saying ever since trade speculation grew last July: He has full veto rights of any trade, and he intends to implement that right if the Phillies were to hard-headedly pursue trade talks involving him.

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An irked Ruben Amaro Jr., anxious to see the matter dissipate, tried to close the book on the Rollins drama.

“All of that is silliness and an unnecessary distraction,” Amaro said. “Jimmy is our shortstop.”

Manager Ryne Sandberg, whose decision to sit Rollins out of three straight Grapefruit League games last week put the status of the 2007 National League MVP in the spotlight, insisted the growth of the story wouldn’t sidetrack his team.

That isn’t to say the Phillies are without issues. When an 89-loss team that finished 13th out of 15 NL teams in scoring has six of its eight Opening Day position players back but appears flat at the plate, that’s an issue. The Phils (5-13-2) scored six runs Wednesday, but that came with the wind blowing out and J.A. Happ and his 40.50 ERA on the hill.

Despite allowing seven base runners in 2 2/3 innings, the struggling former Phillie only gave up three runs and cut his spring ERA in half to 20.25.

Ryan Howard had two hits — and the same amount of unsightly defensive plays in the first inning — but both were modestly struck singles as the first baseman has one home run in 40 at-bats. Chase Utley went 0-for-4 to drop his average to .167 with zero extra-base hits in 36 at-bats. Carlos Ruiz hit a hard double and has swung a lively bat this spring, and Cody Asche launched a win-assisted homer to center field for only his fifth hit.

If Sandberg is getting antsy about a team that many prognosticators predict to finish last in the NL East, he suppressed those feelings Wednesday.

“I see guys coming along with their at-bats,” Sandberg said. “Howie is coming along. Asche hit a ball today, had some better at-bats. I see some guys coming around. That’s what we’re going to need in these last games, for each guy to come around and find their stroke.

“I just look at the potential on paper ... I can see the potential of a lineup where it doesn’t have to be one guy, it can be different guys each day. We haven’t clicked together as a group, but I still look at the potential that’s there and I lean on that, I feel good about that.”

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Cole Hamels didn’t appear comfortable during the back end of his bullpen session at Bright House Field early Wednesday morning. The problem wasn’t physical — there was no setback with the shoulder that had a bout of tendinitis during the winter — but with making his first pitches from the windup this spring, the veteran left-hander said.

“I was able to get a lot of pitches out of the stretch and just introduced the windup, which I hadn’t done since the end of last year,” said Hamels, who could face hitters in a live batting-practice session this weekend. “Your balance is a little off (from the windup). There are a lot of moving parts when you’re as tall as me ... it’s just a matter of getting the reps in with each pitch.

“I’m really looking forward to (facing hitters) because it’s a different intensity and a different stress. That will be a really good test.”

Hamels didn’t throw any curves, but he expects to start throwing them his next time out. It appears doubtful that the southpaw will see any Grapefruit League action, as the best-case scenario has him squeezing in a start in a minor-league game, stretching out at extended spring training, then making a couple of starts in minor-league games later in April.

After starting spring about two weeks behind the rest of the pitchers, Hamels had another 10-day delay thanks to fatigue caused by a lack of weight training during the winter. He said the hiatus helped him get close to full strength.

“I’d say I’m at about 90 percent there,” Hamels said. “It’s that last 10 percent that takes a little bit longer, but when you’re able to get it, it’s there for the long haul.”

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NOTES: In his first outing since taking a perfect game into the sixth inning, Roberto Hernandez was anything but perfect, allowing 11 hits and seven runs in 3 2/3 innings. “(Pitching coach) Bob (McClure) said he didn’t have a real good warmup,” Sandberg said of his No. 4 starter. “He didn’t quite have his two-seam fastball working.” ... Right-hander Mike Adams saw his first action in a minor-league game, throwing 20 pitches in an inning of work at the Carpenter Complex. The veteran reliever could see action in a Grapefruit League game with the Phils before they break camp but won’t be on the active roster Opening Day. ... Domonic Brown, who is 6-for-35 with no homers in a lackluster spring, was sent home with the flu. Reliever Justin DeFratus also had his scheduled outing Wednesday pushed back because of the flu. ... The Phillies have split-squad games against the Astros and the Blue Jays on Thursday. Jeff Manship will start the game in Kissimmee, while David Buchanan gets the ball at home against Toronto.